Thanks for the figure - not bad estimate, considering it was off the top of my head :)
I would add not all living people are in that category, so this is probably an
underestimate.
I still wouldn't call 13% "a small percentage".
----- "Carcharoth" <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
From: "Carcharoth"
<carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, 26 August, 2009 11:10:43 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Blog post on FlaggedRevs
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Andrew
Turvey<andrewrturvey(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
This is contradictory. BLP articles make up a
significant proportion of all articles (something like 25% off the top of my head) so if
you do it for all BLP articles you are not doing it "in a small percentage of
cases"
<snip>
Off the top of your head? :-)
I think (referring to the top of my head) that the 25% (more like
somewhere between 20 and 25%) is for the number of biographical
articles (i.e. both living and dead and long-dead people). The BLP
figure is easily calculated though.
1)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Living_people
400,653 BLP articles (as of 26/08/2009)
2)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics
3,012,053 content articles (as of 26/08/2009)
Hence the BLP percentage is 13.3%.
Carcharoth
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